How far does the streetcar ballot issue really go?

Wording could prevent projects until 2020

3:21 AM,
Sep. 18, 2011

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November's ballot issue to halt Cincinnati's streetcar plan until 2020 is written so broadly it could stop other rail projects in the city, say a majority of legal experts interviewed by The Enquirer.

Cincinnati voters will decide on Issue 48 this fall. But the impact of what they'll be voting on has been in dispute.

The author of the charter amendment's wording, Chris Finney, again insisted last week in an interview that his "objective was to limit the scope only to the bad project that's on the table at this time" - the planned streetcar from Downtown's Government Square to Over-the-Rhine, ...